Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Trivia


Just more than $200 million is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

The world record for kissing is 11,030 people in one hour.

Although it's just 2% of our body weight, our brains use 20% of all the oxygen we breathe, 20% of the calories consume, and 15% of the body's blood supply.

Light takes six hours to travel from Pluto to Earth.

Merv Griffin wrote the theme to "Jeopardy." It's estimated that the royalties have earned him more than $80 million.

The U.S. average credit score is 678.

The US Department of Transportation reports the average life span of a vehicle is 12 years, or about 128,500 miles.

The Rat Pack was made up of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Joey Bishop, with Peter Lawford in a supporting role. In the beginning, they billed themselves as "The Summit." They didn't call themselves "The Rat Pack" because Sinatra hated that term.

Kitsch is the main export of Hell, Michigan.

Experts say 77% of Americans go to the grocery store with a list. It's estimated that half of everything bought there is bought on impulse.

The opposite of a "vacuum" is a "plenum."

Super Bowl weekend is the slowest weekend of the year for weddings.

The largest crossword puzzle ever published had 2,631 clues across and 2,922 clues down. It took up 16-square-feet of space.

The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book that doesn't mention the name of God.

Carnegie Mellon University offers bag piping as a major.

A man named John Bellavia has entered over 5,000 contests, and has never won anything.

Before airplanes existed, the phrase "jet lag" was once called "boat lag."

Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in 20,000.

February is "National Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

what is your statistical chance of dying in a plane crash?